St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-13

on vote of s ayes to 10 noes. The solon
of the North then
wAXED HUMOROUS
and wanted to amend the bill so as to divide
the territory on Apple Greek. and lastly on
general principles. These erratic sugges-
tions put the council in good humor, and
the tall and stately Grigsby, of Sioux Falls,
mounted to his feet and claimed that while
he was an all-wool divisionist, he didn't
favor the bill, as he couldn't figure out by
the double rule Of three or Chase's receipt
book how an expression of the people Of
Dakota would have any beneficial
effect on the congress of the United States,
and in his estimation the spending of money
for the purpose of holding an election was
not the proper thing to do. 1t was hardly
necessary for the members Of the council to
go into discussion of the question why the
territory should be divided. or the passage
of bill authorizing an election for the pur-
pose OF giving the citizens of Dakota an OPP
portunity to express their opinion why the
territory should be divided or not. But
they did, and one of the NEST
BRILLIANT BATTLES OF WORDS
ever fought on the floor of the Dakota leg
islature took place between the hours of 5
and O'Clock. Mr.. Cain, of Beadle
county, championed the bill. and he painted
a beautiful picture showing the hearts of
the Southern people, and illustrating how
surely they We're ,palpitating in harmony
and in unity with those who dwell above
the t0rty-sixth parallel. This eloquence
fell pleasantly on the ears of Hughes,
McCumber and Dodge. but failed to convert
these men from the ideas they had formed
before the fur had begun to sail through
the air. MI, McCumber loomed up after
Mr.. Cain had put the finishing touches on
his picture, and held it up for
inspection by his hearers. He said he
tilted his ear up patiently to hear some
reasons why the territory should be divided.
He had failed to satisfy his desire, and in
his estimation the only reason why the
South wanted to get away from the North
was because it would create new capital
and new offices to be filled by empty
handed politicians. He couldn't see that it
was policy to throw away SIS, 900 or $780,
wanted the territory divided, when the
Democratic party of the United States had
said repeatedly that the territory
COULD NOT COME IN
unless it came in as whole. Congress
had paid no attention to the mighty state
hood established in South Dakota, and
when resolutions and memorials are sent to
congress from Dakota congressman cooked
his eyes up, glanced over the document.
saw it was from Dakota, and gave it no
more attention. He wanted to know if this
bill was passed and the people given a
chance to vote on the question of division
would congress pay any attention to it,
would have any effect ON the territory? In
his opinion it would have no influence
at all. He couldn't quite understand
why the South wanted to draw away from
the sisterly embrace of the North and play
lone hand. Mr.. Dodge. Of Jamestown,
had come to the conclusion, from the amount
of ammunition that had been used, that
they had come to the council chamber that
afternoon loaded for bear. He wanted to
know il the passage of the bill was a
legitimate use of the legislative power. He
claimed that the people of Dakota were not
Independent; they were on earth only be-
cause the people of the United States were
tender-hearted lot and allowed them to
exist. They had only the power to
govern themselves, and for them
to express an opinion to an outside power
of people at an election of the kind piovi-
ded for by the bill would in his estimation
mean nothing. The speaker worked him
self up to a
HIGH PITCH OF EXCITEMENT,
and turning to Cain, yelled: when one
rag or corner Of the territory sets itself up
and asks to be cut off from the government
given it by the powers over which it has
no control, it takes a step next
to that of secession" This brought Cain
to his feet with dark blue
denial that the South Dakotians were Sc
cessionists. Mr.. Hughes claimed that an
election would be illegal and it would be
throwing money into the mouths of
dogs to spend it for an election of this kind.
MI. Wells, Of Pennington, shook with ex-
citement and said congress had said that
when the people asked for division the ter
ritOry would be divided. Hughes denied
that congress had ever intimated such
thing, and Wells continuing claimed that
the Republican senators were jealous of the
power growing in the West and didn't want
Western representatives i'll the halls of con-
gress. He said his reason for being a di-
visionst was that if the territory was di-
vided and admitted she would be repre-
sented in congress by four senators instead
of two. Mr.. McOumber at this point said:
IF this is your argument why not make it
four states and get eight senators?" But
Wells wouldn't be told and and he yelled
back: Make it four it'll suit me better.n
This
RAISED A GENERAL LAUGH
and McCumber sent up an amendment to
have the territory divided on the Missouri
river and forty-sixth parallel. Mr.. Smith,
of Yankton. said if the que ston was sent
to the people it wonld forever settle
row that has been going on for years.
President Matthews, who introduced the
bill, claimed that the question was one of
importance to the people and they should
have the right to express their preference.
DR.. Collins amended the bill fixing the date
of holding the election on the date of the
general election in November instead of
June, as originally provided and the amend
ment was adopted. An adjournment was